Samuel barrett



(No Model.)

S. BARRETT.

WASHING AND STARGHING MACHINE. No. 567,574. Patented Sept. 15, 1896.

NITED STATES SAMUEL BARRETT, OF KEIGI-ILEY, ENGLAND.

WASHING AND STARCHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 567,574, datedSeptember 15, 1896.

Application filed December 3, 1895. Serial No. 570,886. (No model.)Patented in England December 24, 1894, No. 25,080.

, chines, (for which a patent has been granted to me by the governmentof Great Britain and Ireland, No. 25,030, dated DecemberQat, 1894,) ofwhich the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct an apparatus by a novelcombination of parts so arranged as to be suitable for effectuallywashing clot-hes or the like in a short time and in such a manner thatafter the clothes are placed in the apparatus no attention is requiredfrom the operator until they are cleansed, and to so arrange the machinethat it is applicable for starchin g.

In describing my invention in detail, reference is made to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents an elevation,partly in section, of a machine constructed according to my invention.Fig. 2 is a sectional View, looking in at the back of the barrel, online a b. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a valveoase, showing its valvewithin; andFig. i is a bottom view of the valve.

The washing or starching barrel A is placed at an angle and supported bya short shaft B, bolted by webs or otherwise suitably secured to thebottom 0 of the barrel A. The opposite end of the barrel is covered byalid D, having a hole in the center, into which may be fitted a movablelid.

The interior surface of the bottom C is corrugated, and around theinternal circumference of the barrel A a number of shelves or partitionsE are fixed, dividing the interior for some distance from thecircumference of the barrel into divisions.

The short shaft 13 is supported by a suitable bracket-journal F, and hasa bevel-wheel G secured thereto, into which is geared a pinion G,(indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1,) mounted on a shaft driven bypulley J in any convenient manner. The short shaft 13 is hollow for someportion of its length and fitted at the outer end with a stuffingbox andgland of the ordinary construction.

Through this gland passes a steam-pipe K,

conveying steaminto the hollow shaft B, from which project a number ofbranches L, communicating with the interior of the barrel A. Each branchL is by preference provided with a pipe L and L one branch ing to theright and the other to the left, in each of which is a chambercontaining a dropvalve. In describing these branch pipes and valvesreference is made to one set or series only, the other branches withwhich the machine is fitted being of the same construction.

The chamber M in pipe L is truly bored throughout and reduced indiameter at one end, a valve-seat being formed at N, and in the widerportion 0 a circular valve P is placed, the circumference of which isgrooved somewhat, as shown by detail drawings.

The chambers M and M are arranged and provided with similar valves of aweight sui ficient to close the opening against the pressure of steamwhen the pipe L is in certain positions.

It will be obvious that on the barrel A and branch pipe L revolving thevalves will change their positions in the respective chambers. Nhen thepipe L is at the top or near thereto, as shown, the opening from thehollow shaft B will be automatically closed by the gravity of the valveP, thus stopping the supply of steam to the interior of the barrel A,the branch pipes L and L being in such position that the respectivevalves have no effect on the valve-seatings due to gravity.

On the barrel A rotating in the direction of arrow and the pipe Lgetting from a vertical position to about or below the horizontal thepressure of steam then overcomes the weight of the valve P, thusallowing steam to pass and escape through branch L and valve P into theliquid in barrel A, and when the branch L approaches the bottom thevalve P opens, allowing steam to escape into the liquid, the valve Pautomatically closing on the rotary upward movement. Thus by these meansthe liquid in the barrel A is kept hot by a regular supply of steamescaping into the liquid through the respective branches near the bottomof their circular path. The clothes or the like are placed through theopening in center of lid D into the barrel A, which is partly filledwith liquid, which, by the rotation of the barrel, is agitated and theclothes or the like continually changing their position. The partitionsE, passing through the liquid, agitate the same and raise the clothessome distance, and by the barrel A and partition E being at an angle theclothes or the like slide toward the corrugated bottom 0 and fall intothe liquid. The descending divisions striking the liquid swell it towardthe falling clothes, driving the liquid through the same. Thus by theheating of the liquid and continuous agitation the dirt and foreignmatter are rapidly and effectually removed from the fabric.

It will be seen that when applying the apparatus for starching, by thesliding motion of the fabric and the agitation of the starching liquid,the starch is in a short time driven equally through all portions of thefabric immersed in the barrel.

What I claim as my invention is A washing or starching barrel A, mountedand rotated at an inclination, combined with one or a series of branchpipes provided with automatic opening and closing valves for the purposeas hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL BARRETT.

Witnesses:

WM. PREST, O. T. WAUGH.

